James Stormonth

WILLIAM FUDD - I saw the prisoner with the rebels at Stirling before the Battle of Falkirk with a white cockade in his hat, I saw him on the day of the Battle of Falkirk marching up on foot along with Ogilvie's first battalion to the battle, and carrying the colours there, and soon after the engagement began I saw the prisoner running away from the battle, having dropped the colours, whereupon Lord Ogilvie cried out, "My colours are gone", and witnessed Major Glascoe take them up. I saw the prisoner marching along with the said battalion to Perth, and saw him there with them. JOHN DOGE - I saw the prisoner at Stirling, after the battle of Falkirk, in Highland dress, with a sword at his side and a white cockade in his hat, walking up and down with other rebel officers. He was called a Lieutenant in first battalion of Lord Ogilvie’s regiment. CAPTAIN EYRE; LIEUTENANT MOORE - These gentleman were appointed by his Royal Highness to take an account of the rebel officers taken at, or surrendered to the King's forces, after the Battle of Culloden, and the prisoner told them he was an ensign in Lord Ogilvie's regiment. WILLIAM WILLS - I saw the prisoner with the rebels at Leith in October, 1745, soon after the best Battle of Prestonpans, armed with a broadsword, and he had a white cockade in his bonnet. He was called a captain in Lord Ogilvie’s regiment. He marched with the rebels to Carlisle. I saw him every day upon the said match, and particularly at Moffat and Riccarby, near Carlisle, along with said regiment, during the siege of that place by the rebels. JOHN REACH - I saw him at Leith and Edinburgh, armed and dressed as aforesaid. JOHN WILLIAMSON - I knew him to be an officer in Lord Ogilvie’s regiment, and saw him upon the march with them to Carlisle, armed and dressed as aforesaid, sometimes with a jockey coat over them. FOR THE DEFENCE THOMAS STARCK - Prisoner came back 8 or 10 days before the retreat from Stirling. Resided in Aberdeen(?) in March. He sent to the sheriff and minister -- he was ill -- to surrender. He went, and they came in the afternoon, and he said, as I surrender to you I shall be at your call when you please. He stayed till Hessians apprehended him. Living on 1000 merks on his own wife's estate. MR. BRUCE - Proclaimed as a gentleman since married but queer man before. [Found guilty] Memorandum - James Stormonth’s case. He was one of the Rebel prisoners at whose trail such favourable circumstances appeared, that Lord Chief Justice Wills wrote in his favour to the Duke of Newcastle: when he was brought out of prison into a messenger's house. His Grace the Duke of Argyle spoke to the Duke of Newcastle about him, who in his presence sent for up Mr. Stone and to know if what was said in the said James Stormonth’s favour was true, which Mr. Stone assured his Grace that it was, upon which his Grace was pleased to order Mr. Stone and to mark him down for a free pardon; but the hurry he was in going abroad with his Majesty, and Mr. Ramsden (to whom Mr. Stone and was so good to recommend it) going soon afterwards with the Duke of Newcastle, those in the office either did not know or forgot it, so that when the Regents met to determine the prisoners’ fate, James Stormonth was on the list of those to be transported to the plantations for life. The Duke of Argyle told the Regents that what had passed betwixt the Duke of Newcastle and him about said James Stormonth, and the Duke of Bedford was to write to his Grace about it; meantime his name was scratched out of that the list, and his fate is not as yet determined, to the great detriment of the poor man, who has little or nothing to support him.